Yuri Mechitov

The picture was shot in autumn 1983 during shootings of the Parajanov’s film The Legend of Surami fortress.

The picture was shot in autumn 1983 during shootings of the Parajanov’s film The Legend of Surami fortress. I was working as a photographer on this film. The boys hold props in their hands. Looking at them I noticed a dog running from the left side and managed somehow to push a button. In camera viewfinder, I saw dog’s head entering the frame but after developing the film it appeared that only the back part of the dog was recorded. I never had the chance to display this picture properly and it’s worth it.

Yuri Mechitov was born on May 10, 1950, in Tbilisi, Georgia. He began to photograph when he was 8 years old. But he started to think about photography seriously much later. His first exhibition was displayed in 1979, in Tbilisi. He started to work mainly in the documentary genre. His artistic guides who influenced his work were two very different people: an artist Mark Polyakov, who lives and works in NY, and a director Sergey Parajanov, who rests in peace, in Yerevan, Armenia.